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Would anybody be interested in a 'Lone Canon Warrior' game?

In theory it's an interesting idea but how in the world are you going to enforce that? "Only one character from any given canon at a time" would just be a really weird rule...

but imagine how happy it would make the people who hate popular canons

I don't think it's so much as for 'people who hate popular canons' as 'people who enjoy playing from obscure canons but end up never being tagged'.

yeah, i see that it's not the intent of the op, but it could also work out for the people i mentioned

is there anyone who actually DOES hate all popular canons? maybe i'm sheltered or something but that just sounds like elitist ~special snowflake~ bullshit.

some anons do, to judge by some of the threads we had back on lj. i've never talked to one non-anon who admitted to it, though. maybe they are just ~special snowflakes~ :p

I'm interested

I think the same ic effect could be achieved with an amnesia/au game. It doesn't necessarily have to be ONLY ONE CHARACTER PER CANON.

I just can't see a game of only ~lone canon warriors~ working. If it were an actually interesting game, it'd be really frustrating for almost everyone that wanted to apply.

I don't think it COULD be achieved with amnesia/au. Maybe some people would play it that way, but a lot of people would oocly make their character interact more with or gravitate to their own castmates, either just because they love/know more about the canon or because they want to experiment with the way the relationship or opinions of each other could be different with such a different 'first' meeting.

In a lone canon warrior game, every popular or obscure canon would be on even footing from the start, without more obscure characters having to work twice as hard for half as much results.

Because no one would gravitate towards the lone canon warrior representation of popular canons they like.

No shit, but it would still be a more even footing. People wouldn't be able to hang out entirely by canon; characters that would ICly only involve themselves with canonmates would HAVE to tag others or just stay completely by themselves; because it would be a lone canon warrior game, people would be more likely to app obscure canons and would thus be more likely to tag OTHER obscure canons.

You're right, and I've got another idea. No one is allowed to tag anyone they know OOCly.

That way, people wouldn't hang out just based upon OOC social groups, players who don't know anyone OOCly would have a better chance of gaining valuable CR with people who might otherwise stay together, and it would encourage people to branch out with new and exotic characters they might otherwise wouldn't try.

Oh! Here's another one. Require people to tag a certain amount of new people in order to pass AC. If they tag the same five people, they get warned, and if they don't meet a certain number of new people they get dropped.

I've got another idea! Also, we should require people to app from an obscure canon. Have it so that they're allowed one semi-popular canon but have to balance that with, say, 3-4 different characters from obscure canons.

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